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because brennan is up? >> well, because john brennan has been one of the president's closest advisorses and the man more or less targeting the targeted killing from the white house for the last four years. remember brennan was the president's first choice to lead the c.i.a. in his first term, but he had to step aside. it's quite clear the white house wants john brennan to be the c.i.a. director. they were willing to give up something to get that. it's also important to notice that civil liberties groups have ongoing lawsuits against the justice department and the administration to get this had information. most importantly, the white house is finally starting to acknowledge that when you take such a serious action as to kill a u.s. citizen with a drone, you may be have some responsibility to explain a little bit about that. >> one of the most controversial things about this was the notion in this white paper that in order to kill someone, they have to be an imminent threat. what was brennan's definition of
because brennan is up? >> well, because john brennan has been one of the president's closest advisorses and the man more or less targeting the targeted killing from the white house for the last four years. remember brennan was the president's first choice to lead the c.i.a. in his first term, but he had to step aside. it's quite clear the white house wants john brennan to be the c.i.a. director. they were willing to give up something to get that. it's also important to notice that civil...
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obama kept brennan on as an adviser, and last year, when brennan became the first official to formally acknowledge that the drone program even existed, he again encountered protests. >> how many people are you willing to sacrifice? why are you lying to the american people and not saying how many innocents have been killed? >> thank you ma'am for expressing your views. we will have time for questions following the presentation. >> i speak out on behalf of tariq aziz. a 16-year-old in pakistan who was killed because he wanted to document the drone strikes. >> now, despite brennan's past notoriety, obama officially has nominated him to head the cia. this time, there's been little criticism of the decision. so, we'll watch brennan's upcoming confirmation hearings to see if any congressional critics press him on whether the obama administration is fighting the war on terror within the rule of law. which brings me to my guests for this discussion. vincent warren is executive director of the center for constitutional rights, which is dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed
obama kept brennan on as an adviser, and last year, when brennan became the first official to formally acknowledge that the drone program even existed, he again encountered protests. >> how many people are you willing to sacrifice? why are you lying to the american people and not saying how many innocents have been killed? >> thank you ma'am for expressing your views. we will have time for questions following the presentation. >> i speak out on behalf of tariq aziz. a...
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and elise ened to john brennan. so i mean there are times when a president has to make that lonely decision and that's where the buck does stop. >> woodruff: bring it back home, talking about politics. pure politics, inside the republican party, david, it looks like there are some, we've seen some evidence of this but now it looks like it's more out in the open, some of the traditional folks we thought of as being traditional leaders of the republican party are openly challenging, the tea party is this a momentary difference of opinion. or is it something longer lasting. >> i think it's a beginning of a longer lasting thing. there's been a lot of calls from republicans to change and we've seen that from paul ryan to marco rubbio, now we're seeing the donor class really begin to change. there is some question are they trying to change just the candidate so they don't get todd aikens or trying to change the substance. and so far it seems to be just the condition datas. one of the interesting things and i can't say i k
and elise ened to john brennan. so i mean there are times when a president has to make that lonely decision and that's where the buck does stop. >> woodruff: bring it back home, talking about politics. pure politics, inside the republican party, david, it looks like there are some, we've seen some evidence of this but now it looks like it's more out in the open, some of the traditional folks we thought of as being traditional leaders of the republican party are openly challenging, the tea...
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brennan has been key in implementing the stepped-up use of drones to target terror suspects. >> ifill: for more now on the justice department's white paper, we get two views. matthew waxman is a professor of law at columbia law school and a fellow at the council on foreign relations. and hina shamsi is director of the american civil liberties union's national security project. hina shamsi, has you look at this white paper today did it tell you something you did not know or that maybe you snerd. >> well, the argument in the white paper is quite familiar in many ways to speeches that senior administration officials have given. but i think there are two aspects that are particularly problematic and deeply chilling and everyone should read this white paper. someone what it says or summarizes about the substantive legal standards that the government is apparently applying. it starts out claiming that there are limits, for example, imminent threats, as you quoted in your introduction. as you keep reading as it turns out for a high-level official to determine that a threat is imminent he or
brennan has been key in implementing the stepped-up use of drones to target terror suspects. >> ifill: for more now on the justice department's white paper, we get two views. matthew waxman is a professor of law at columbia law school and a fellow at the council on foreign relations. and hina shamsi is director of the american civil liberties union's national security project. hina shamsi, has you look at this white paper today did it tell you something you did not know or that maybe you...
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drone strategy now in an effort to avoid scrutiny around brennan's cabinet as the the u.s. president has even agreed to hand over classified documents justifying the killing of american terror suspects abroad now that's after years of keeping it a secret and our team is going to education reports of brennan's confirmation my broaden the horizons for america's drone fleets take a look. in the shadows no more drones are moving into the mainstream drone makers in the u.s. military pushing to defend the killing machine drones are more properly titled remotely piloted vehicles allow us to do is to project capability without projecting vulnerability in their revolutionizing were. bio allowing us to see and choose from half a world away a major drone manufacturer lockheed martin has financed an hour long documentary on drones aired recently on u.s. public television counting the technological capabilities of the killing machine from trailers like this pilots of the predator and its larger cousin the reaper have killed thousands of individual since two thousand and one using remote
drone strategy now in an effort to avoid scrutiny around brennan's cabinet as the the u.s. president has even agreed to hand over classified documents justifying the killing of american terror suspects abroad now that's after years of keeping it a secret and our team is going to education reports of brennan's confirmation my broaden the horizons for america's drone fleets take a look. in the shadows no more drones are moving into the mainstream drone makers in the u.s. military pushing to...
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drone strategy in an effort to avoid scrutiny around brennan canada c perhaps the us president has even agreed to hand over classified documents justifying the killing of american terror suspects abroad now that is after years of keeping that secret as art has been educated reports of brennan's confirmation and might broaden the horizons for america's drone fleet. in the shadows no more drones are moving into the mainstream was drone makers in the u.s. military pushing to defend the killing machine drones are more properly titled remotely piloted vehicles allow us to do is to project capability without projecting vulnerability and their revolutionizing warfare by allowing us to see and kill from half a world away a major drone manufacturer lockheed martin has financed an hour long documentary on drones aired recently on u.s. public television touting the technological capabilities of the killing machine from trailers like this pilots of the predator and its larger cousin the reaper have killed thousands of individuals since two thousand and one using remotely piloted aircraft contrary t
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brennan, that is your shop. do you have any knowledge about why senator graham's question was not to be answered? >> there is a longstanding tradition understanding of respecting the executive privilege that exists in the presidency in terms of what information is provided to the president or advice, counsel, to him. i would suspect that that question gets into this issue of the executive privilege which i think again has been a long standing tradition. >> are you sure that is the answer or do you think? >> i do not understand, because that will not be a request coming to me. >> i understand, so my direction to you, at what i ask you, is that you review that. we will get you the and notation, if necessary. secretary panetta told us it was detainee information that was key to them finding the courier and bin laden. were you briefed by any of the analysts who tracked down bin laden? >> before the operation? >> yes. >> yes, absolutely. >> is that the information given to you, that it came from interrogation of deta
brennan, that is your shop. do you have any knowledge about why senator graham's question was not to be answered? >> there is a longstanding tradition understanding of respecting the executive privilege that exists in the presidency in terms of what information is provided to the president or advice, counsel, to him. i would suspect that that question gets into this issue of the executive privilege which i think again has been a long standing tradition. >> are you sure that is the...
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questioning brennan. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> your colleague lindsey graham said in part to his comments to our own casey hunt we should be totally supportive of the president's actions. i also want to play what john bolton said regarding the obama counterterrorism effort. let me play it and get your reaction to both of those. >> the approach that the obama administration is following is consistent with and really derived from the bush administration approach to the war on terror and i think it's entirely sensible. >> do you agree with that? lindsey graham saying totally sensible. >> we are fighting a war that's much different than the classic and traditional wars that we have fought in the past. the result of that is the methods of fighting that war and the way that americans are involved in the war are different than what they have in the past. and so, we're really in a process today of a much maturing way of handling these, of looking at them. i think there's going to be a robust discu
questioning brennan. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> your colleague lindsey graham said in part to his comments to our own casey hunt we should be totally supportive of the president's actions. i also want to play what john bolton said regarding the obama counterterrorism effort. let me play it and get your reaction to both of those. >> the approach that the obama administration is following is consistent with and really derived from the bush administration approach...
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what do we make of brennan? does he take this stuff seriously and as nice over it or does he seem cowboyish in the way he keeps wanting to do all these things outside the bounds of the law? >> in this town, it's hard to believe anybody. i remember president obama in 2009 signing the order and staying i'm going to close guantanamo and it's still open. actions speak louder than yours. i was shocked when he was asked if waterboarding was torture and he said i'm not a lawyer, i can't make that kind of decision, yet if confirmed he'll have the power to decide whether someone is killed or not. another fallacy with this program, the cia is not part of that organization, there's no international authority that says a civilian agency can go over seas and kill people. >> cenk: map we have gone down this rabbit hole and we're in big trouble and it doesn't appear that anybody's doing a damn thing about it. colonel davis if you'd stick around for one more segment, i want to bring in -- >> sure. >> cenk: great i want to bring
what do we make of brennan? does he take this stuff seriously and as nice over it or does he seem cowboyish in the way he keeps wanting to do all these things outside the bounds of the law? >> in this town, it's hard to believe anybody. i remember president obama in 2009 signing the order and staying i'm going to close guantanamo and it's still open. actions speak louder than yours. i was shocked when he was asked if waterboarding was torture and he said i'm not a lawyer, i can't make...
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it will come up in the brennan hearings. >> should john brennan be confirmed? >> i think he will get confirmed. i think there will be lots of questions about leaks and detenti detention. i think at the end of the day, he gets confirmed for the position. >> thank you very much. thanks, mr. chairman. >> appreciate it. >>> and president obama making his first official trip to israel this strpring. could he hit the reset button with netanyahu. and will the house tackle illegal gun trafficking. >>> for the first time since he took office, president obama is traveling to israel. ambassador dennis ross with the washington institute for nearest policy was a special assistant to president obama and adviser to hillary clinton and is msnbc diplomacy analyst. great to see you. you've spent so much time on this never ending mission of middle east peace. john kerry wants to tackle it, the president is going it tackle it early on. what is the cost benefit analysis for what can be accomplished now? >> i don't think the expectations are very high in terms of the president going
it will come up in the brennan hearings. >> should john brennan be confirmed? >> i think he will get confirmed. i think there will be lots of questions about leaks and detenti detention. i think at the end of the day, he gets confirmed for the position. >> thank you very much. thanks, mr. chairman. >> appreciate it. >>> and president obama making his first official trip to israel this strpring. could he hit the reset button with netanyahu. and will the house...
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do you think brennan will be confirmed? >> it was a good hearing for brennan. i'm sure he's satisfied with what happened. i have confidence after another session next week in class fight setting, he will be confirmed by the senate. >> john: p.j. crowley is professor at george washington university and former secretary of state for public affairs for president obama as well as national security affairs to president clinton. p.j., many thanks. >> pleasure, john. >> john: have a great evening. joining me via skype, one of the foremost critics of the not so secret drone program glenn greenwald, columnist are in the british newspaper the guardian and author of with liberty and justice for some, how the law is used to protect the powerful. what a pleasure to have you with us. >> thank you. thanks for having me. >> john: today was a pretty busy day. senator feinstein told the committee according to the information she has from the white house which she said the committee's trying to confirm civilian casualties from drone strikes are in single digits each year. what do
do you think brennan will be confirmed? >> it was a good hearing for brennan. i'm sure he's satisfied with what happened. i have confidence after another session next week in class fight setting, he will be confirmed by the senate. >> john: p.j. crowley is professor at george washington university and former secretary of state for public affairs for president obama as well as national security affairs to president clinton. p.j., many thanks. >> pleasure, john. >> john:...
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answering tough questions on everything from a kill list to drone strikes coming up a critical look at yon brennan's record. setting south of the border the u.s. is spending tens of billions of dollars on the war on drugs and that battle is now being fought all over latin america will break down the cost of these missions and ask if they are really accomplishing anything. it's thursday february seventh five pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching r t. we begin today taking a look at drones and the role they play in achieving u.s. foreign policy goals it's an issue with covered extensively here at r.s.c. and finally making its way into the mainstream conversation on order to operate these unmanned aircraft the u.s. needs military bases relatively close to the planned targets and it turns out the u.s. has had one in saudi arabia for about two years or where in saudi arabia that's still a mystery but chances are you had no idea it existed and that's because it's been somewhat of a secret apparently many media outlets knew all about the base but didn't report it it's now coming to li
answering tough questions on everything from a kill list to drone strikes coming up a critical look at yon brennan's record. setting south of the border the u.s. is spending tens of billions of dollars on the war on drugs and that battle is now being fought all over latin america will break down the cost of these missions and ask if they are really accomplishing anything. it's thursday february seventh five pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching r t. we begin today taking a...
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tough questions on everything from the kill list to drone strikes coming up a critical look at john brennan's record. like father like son rand paul might have followed in his father's footsteps by becoming a lawmaker but what about his stance is i had a look at what paul preaches when it comes to foreign policy. it's thursday february seventeenth pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching our tea. we begin today taking a look at drones in the role they play and achieving u.s. foreign policy goals it's an issue we've covered extensively here at r t and finally making its way into the mainstream conversation well in order to operate these unmanned aircraft the u.s. needs military bases relatively close to the planned targets turns out the u.s. had it had one such base in saudi arabia for two years where in saudi arabia the exact location is still a mystery but chances are you had no idea it existed at all that's because it's been somewhat of a secret apparently many media outlets knew all about the base but didn't report it it's now coming to light that the american media did
tough questions on everything from the kill list to drone strikes coming up a critical look at john brennan's record. like father like son rand paul might have followed in his father's footsteps by becoming a lawmaker but what about his stance is i had a look at what paul preaches when it comes to foreign policy. it's thursday february seventeenth pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching our tea. we begin today taking a look at drones in the role they play and achieving u.s....
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brennan would then offer up a non-answer. then the or the almost no follow-up requests let's go to ron wyden's questioning of john brennan thursday. he is leading the push for the white house to explain its rationale for targeting u.s. citizens. >> let me ask you several other questions with respect to the president's authority to kill americans. i would ask you how much evidence the president needs to decide that a particular american can be lawfully killed and whether the administration believes that the president can use his authority inside the united states. my judgment, but the congress and the public need to understand the answers to these kind of fundamental questions. what do you think needs to be done to ensure that members of the public understand more about when the government thinks it is allowed to kill them, particularly with respect to those two issues, question of evidence and the authority to use this power within the united states? >> i have been a strong proponent of trying to be as open as possible with t
brennan would then offer up a non-answer. then the or the almost no follow-up requests let's go to ron wyden's questioning of john brennan thursday. he is leading the push for the white house to explain its rationale for targeting u.s. citizens. >> let me ask you several other questions with respect to the president's authority to kill americans. i would ask you how much evidence the president needs to decide that a particular american can be lawfully killed and whether the administration...
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we may see on thursday how many of those questions john brennan will answer. but tonight, four days ahead of that hearing, nbc news, michael isikoff has obtained a document that is closer than we have ever gotten that supposedly justifies this, the memo that may show the justification for the american government killing american citizens. tonight we have exclusive reporting. joining us is national investigative correspondent michael isikoff. michael, thank you for being here. >> good to be with you, rachel. >> everybody has been looking for this memo. you have not the memo, but a white paper based on the memo. does it tell us anything that we did not know before about how the government justifies targeted killings of americans? >> yes. in short, it does. it provides detail. it fleshes out some of the arguments that have been made publicly, and in ways that in some instances contrast with what has been said publicly. now, to be fair, attorney general holder gave a speech last march where he laid out the administration case for targeted killing of americans. he
we may see on thursday how many of those questions john brennan will answer. but tonight, four days ahead of that hearing, nbc news, michael isikoff has obtained a document that is closer than we have ever gotten that supposedly justifies this, the memo that may show the justification for the american government killing american citizens. tonight we have exclusive reporting. joining us is national investigative correspondent michael isikoff. michael, thank you for being here. >> good to...
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andrea, just one last point on john brennan. because so much of what he i guess represents in politics is stuff that nobody else gets to discuss, stuff that is discussed in politics because so little is known about it, do you think there is a chance tomorrow that the hearings are essentially going to be a trial for the administration's drone policies and a trial for the administration's counterterrorism policies more than they are going to be a vetting of john brennan the man, john brennan the potential cia director? >> well you could argue that they are one in the same since he was the architect of it. but he will also be asked about enhanced interrogation, because he was a part of that. he is a veteran of the cia. a lot of people argue from inside the intelligence community that he is the perfect head of the cia because he is well respected and has, you know, a life-long career there. he is very close to the president. and you can really see the body language when the president was nominating him, just how close they are. this
andrea, just one last point on john brennan. because so much of what he i guess represents in politics is stuff that nobody else gets to discuss, stuff that is discussed in politics because so little is known about it, do you think there is a chance tomorrow that the hearings are essentially going to be a trial for the administration's drone policies and a trial for the administration's counterterrorism policies more than they are going to be a vetting of john brennan the man, john brennan the...
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they know john brennan is a favorite of president obama. he got a pretty warm welcome up here at a hearing that could about, when you think of it, what some call cia torture. could have been about and was in part, about the u.s. intelligence failures that led to the deaths of four u.s. diplomats in benghazi, libya, but mostly it was about the relatively new phenomenon of raging war by remote control. and what the rules ought to be. talking about u.s. unmanned drones. the predators, and the reapers flying maybe right now in pakistan, in yemen, in somalia. many, many more attacks under the obama administration, 360 so far, and probably just the president's first term, though, no doubt there have been some since he was knock raided for the second, xarpd to 50 in the bush 43 administration. so john brennan was pressed since the new rules on the use of drones finally came out secretly, given to members of the senate intelligence committee overnight, a promise by the administration there will be care taken to maintain american values, maybe even
they know john brennan is a favorite of president obama. he got a pretty warm welcome up here at a hearing that could about, when you think of it, what some call cia torture. could have been about and was in part, about the u.s. intelligence failures that led to the deaths of four u.s. diplomats in benghazi, libya, but mostly it was about the relatively new phenomenon of raging war by remote control. and what the rules ought to be. talking about u.s. unmanned drones. the predators, and the...
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people have said john brennan is an advocate for transparency. if that is true, now's the time to release the olc memo, the legal counsel memo. i think the debate about his nomination should be informed by the memo. >> we have a report in headlines about open society, justice initiative, and you are a fellow there right now on leave from the aclu, putting out a new report that has revealed a detailed look at the cia programs, six renditions and torture. the initiative says 54 countries aided the cia until president obama stop the program in 2009 called globalizing torture. it reveals at least 136 people were held by the cia during those years. how significant is that? what i think it is the most comprehensive report thus far about the people who are held by the cia and what happened to them and also the complicity of other countries in the cia's program. some of those countries have begun to grapple with the question of accountability for their role in that program. as you know, the u.s. has not, the obama administration has interfered with civil
people have said john brennan is an advocate for transparency. if that is true, now's the time to release the olc memo, the legal counsel memo. i think the debate about his nomination should be informed by the memo. >> we have a report in headlines about open society, justice initiative, and you are a fellow there right now on leave from the aclu, putting out a new report that has revealed a detailed look at the cia programs, six renditions and torture. the initiative says 54 countries...
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brennan. we have also posted a section on our facebook page, facebook.com/c-span. let's go to joyce in florida on our directs line. caller: hi. first of all, let me say that i am very, very proud. i've been watching brennan for many, many years in different positions. isle a political science major and i'm so proud he knows thousand answer the questions. he was so well-informed. as an american and someone who has learned to trust some of our leaders but not all, that is one person that i can go to bed at night and feel very comfortable in the way he looks at things. i'm a democrat. what he says, i'm not a democrat or republican, i truely believe that about him. i believe he loves this country and there are some things he can't say and i respect that. he's able to communicate in such a way that a person can understand where he's kimming from. i think in general, this is -- he's coming from. i think in general this is what america needs. in some days i feel like i need -- know more than some tho
brennan. we have also posted a section on our facebook page, facebook.com/c-span. let's go to joyce in florida on our directs line. caller: hi. first of all, let me say that i am very, very proud. i've been watching brennan for many, many years in different positions. isle a political science major and i'm so proud he knows thousand answer the questions. he was so well-informed. as an american and someone who has learned to trust some of our leaders but not all, that is one person that i can go...
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brennan? >> not completely obviously saying sometimes it produces information and sometimes it isn't -- >> not enough to derail this nomination. >> i don't think so. i think brennan probably compared with hagel is going to be a breeze to get through, but these are issues and this is what this testimony actually illustrates, that really tug at the heartstrings of americans. we have had a traumatic decade. we have come away questioning tactics of torture, the use of guantanamo bay. the legal justification not fully understood. the drone issue still not fully explained because it's so secret. there's still a lot the american public is struggling to understand. >> dan, one reaction that i have relative to the whole standard of when we could take out even an american is, you know, be careful before you make your decision based on the occupant of the white house because precedent is being set here, and whatever the drill might be for today could apply to president clinton in 2016. it could apply to
brennan? >> not completely obviously saying sometimes it produces information and sometimes it isn't -- >> not enough to derail this nomination. >> i don't think so. i think brennan probably compared with hagel is going to be a breeze to get through, but these are issues and this is what this testimony actually illustrates, that really tug at the heartstrings of americans. we have had a traumatic decade. we have come away questioning tactics of torture, the use of guantanamo...
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now that john brennan and perhaps check hagel's nominations might depend on it, a white paper is leaked to nbc news. listen to the details of what the government thinks it is allowed to do. >> it provides detail, it fleshes out some of the arguments that have been made publicly and in ways that in some instances contrast with what has been said publicly. it specifically states that imminence does not mean that the united states has to have clear evidence that a specific attack on u.s. persons or interest is underway. now, again remember, we're talking about targeted killings of americans. we're talking about making decisions based on secret intelligence, and we see in this memo that some of the definitions are a bit more eelastic and open to interpretation. >> is there a bigger power than executing your own citizens without checking with any other body. normally, you check with the judiciary, do you think these people are guilty? now our executive branch says, we're the judge jury and executioner. we all got together and decided you know what, here's some u.s. citizens we'd like to exec
now that john brennan and perhaps check hagel's nominations might depend on it, a white paper is leaked to nbc news. listen to the details of what the government thinks it is allowed to do. >> it provides detail, it fleshes out some of the arguments that have been made publicly and in ways that in some instances contrast with what has been said publicly. it specifically states that imminence does not mean that the united states has to have clear evidence that a specific attack on u.s....
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he said he's very much looking forward to making this a crucial part of the questioning on brennan on thursday. >> right. and again, what this document actually is, it's like a white paper, a summary of the actual official office of legal counsel for the department of justice that authorized the killings of american citizens. the concern and it's popping up a little bit today, the concern is that there are -- the actual memo is a lot more damning to the administration. the memo is a lot broader, it may be vaguer in terms of -- >> this is pretty broad and vague. >> right. and yet it would be that it doesn't even limit it necessarily to this war on terror that and that is really the risk here and if you want to defend this on the grounds of i don't mind the obama administration maybe doing this, you are giving the power, the latitude to any future president. a president you may not like or trust. that's the risk with executive authority. if republicans go along with it, democrats go along with it and then both expand it, future president gets that power and then i'm not comfortable with
he said he's very much looking forward to making this a crucial part of the questioning on brennan on thursday. >> right. and again, what this document actually is, it's like a white paper, a summary of the actual official office of legal counsel for the department of justice that authorized the killings of american citizens. the concern and it's popping up a little bit today, the concern is that there are -- the actual memo is a lot more damning to the administration. the memo is a lot...
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thursday at his confirmation hearing before the senate intelligence committee, cia director nominee john brennan answered blunt questions on the u.s.'s drone attack authority. a confidential memo detailing the justice department's legal reasoning for killing american citizens with drones was released this week. >> any american who joins al- qaida will know full well that they have joined an organization that is at war with the united states and hat killed thousands upon thousands of individuals, many, many of them who are americans. so i think any american who did that should know well that they, in fact, are part of an enemy against us and that united states will do everything possible to destroy that enemy to save american lives. >> what's the troubling aspect of the justice department's reasoning concerning the use of drones against u.s. citizens? >> i'll tell you, john, the troubling aspect is this. look, if an individual joins al- qaida, and they're planning a bomb or involved in an attack on americans, look, he's fair game, he's an enemy combatant. but what the justice department said is l
thursday at his confirmation hearing before the senate intelligence committee, cia director nominee john brennan answered blunt questions on the u.s.'s drone attack authority. a confidential memo detailing the justice department's legal reasoning for killing american citizens with drones was released this week. >> any american who joins al- qaida will know full well that they have joined an organization that is at war with the united states and hat killed thousands upon thousands of...